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CVE-2026-93236

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Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel's media: meson: vdec driver, vdec_try_fmt_common() falls back to V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2 for unsupported pixel formats. If a distro has patched out MPEG2 support, find_format() returns NULL, causing a NULL pointer dereference and crash. The fix uses the first format in the platform's format array instead of hardcoding MPEG2.

Risk Assessment

May cause kernel crashes (NULL pointer dereference) when VIDIOC_TRY_FMT is called with an unsupported format, leading to denial of service on systems with this driver.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the meson vdec driver fix. Avoid calling VIDIOC_TRY_FMT with unsupported formats until the update is applied.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: meson: vdec: fix NULL pointer deref in vdec_try_fmt_common When VIDIOC_TRY_FMT is called with an unsupported pixel format on the OUTPUT queue, vdec_try_fmt_common() falls back to V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2. However, if a distro has locally patched MPEG2 support out (as it has been broken for some time) the platform format table does not contain MPEG2 so find_format() returns NULL and the subsequent dereference of fmt_out->max_width triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Fix this by falling back to the first format in the platform's format array instead of hardcoding V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2. This is always valid since every platform defines at least one format.

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